There are quite a few repositories on GitHub that even non-professionals would find interesting to poke around in. I have prepared a small compilation of the most interesting ones especially for you. An empty “zen repository”, a repository for the silliest password requirements, and a Donald Trump-style Python-based scripting language…

There is a list of the top 7 good-to-know things about JUnit5. But if you are not familiar with the framework, you’d better start with the official guide. Test lifecycle Every test is a method annotated with @Test. To add a readable name to a test method, use @DisplayMethod annotation. …

It’s 2023 and it’s time for a new web server benchmark! The results were a bit unexpected for me! A web server must be able to process tons of requests despite the bottleneck being IO. …

All of us know that GOTO was deprecated and is considered absolute evil. Moreover, any jumping instruction is bad because it breaks the logical sequential flow of your code. Jumping by labels breaks our brain and makes it hard to follow logic because we should keep track of the current…

I was once asked in an interview what you would do if you found a service not working because you ran out of disk space? Of course I replied that I would look to see what the space was occupied by and, if possible, clean up the space. Then the…

Windows filesystem paths are stranger than you might think. In any Unix-derived system, paths are surprisingly simple: if something starts with /, it’s a path. But things are quite different on Windows, which has a puzzling variety of path schemes. It’s worth noting that this article is limited to the…

This is a translation of a comment left by ilitaiksperta for an article on habr. I found it very interesting, funny and sobering, containing a great deal of truth. So I decided to translate it for you. Enjoy. Unfortunately desktop linux is a unique set of horribly bad engineering solutions…

During the California gold rush, the people who made the most money were those who sold mining gear and equipment, not those who tried to mine the gold. Now the I.T. field is heavily touted. Everyone knows that to be an I.T. guy is to make good money doing nothing…

Friends, we all know that programming is a very important and incredibly interesting activity that can take a lot of time and effort. But what if I told you that there are programming languages that can look really crazy and weird? In this article, I want to share with you…